Information about Health and Wellbeing Board

The
overall purpose of the Board is to bring together key partners from
the NHS, public health and local government, including Healthwatch
as the patient’s voice to jointly plan how best to meet local
health and care needs.

The
Board’s three principal statutory duties are:

·To assess the needs of the local population through
a Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

·To set out how these needs will be addressed through
a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWBS) that offers a
strategic framework in which Clinical Commissioning Groups
(CCG’s), Local Authorities and NHS England can make their
commissioning decisions.